Cushion-heel for shoes and the like



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' APPLICATION FILEDJULY 6, I918.

1,392,823, Patented 001;. 4, 921.

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CUSHION-HEEL FOR SHOES AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Oct. a, 1921.

Application filed July 6, 1918. Serial No. 243,655.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, T'IARRY FAncnNsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cushion-Heels for Shoesand the like, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has to do with an improved heel for shoes and thelike, and it has particular reference to the armoring or protection ofsaid heel for the purpose of enabling it to better resist wear. Thefeatures of the present invention are very well adapted for use withrubber and other resilient heels.

One of the objects of the invention is to protect or armor a rubber orother resilient heel by vulcanizing a wear-resisting plate into the bodyof the material of-wnich the heel is made, so that it will be veryfirmly and permanently joined thereto. Another object is to so form andconstruct the reinforcing or armoring member that the same will not onlybe very well adapted for resisting wear, but also will be readilyapplicable to the present use and will very perfectly vulcanize into thebody of the heel.

Other objects and uses of the invention will appear from a detaileddescription of the same which consists in the features of constructionand combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 shows a bottom plan view of a rubber heel having appliedthereto the armoring plate or member of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking in thedirection of the arrows;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one form of the reinforcing or armoringmemb r, the same being made of two pieces riveted together; and

Fig. lis a perspective View of a somewhat modified form of armoring orprotecting device, the same being made of a single piece of metal.

In the dr wing the numeral 5 designates the body of the heel. The sameis made of rubber and may be one of a number of well known types. It isillustrated as being provided with a series of lugs or antislippingprojections on its lower surface. Ordinarily the nail holes 7 will bepassed up through the project-ions 6. The rear corner 8 will be thecorner ordinarily subjected to maximum wear. Within this corner I embedan armoring plate 9 relatively close to the edge and having its lowersurface lying just at or very close to the lower surface of the heel.The armoring device 9 is conveniently made of crescent or horse shoeshape, such as illustrated in the figures, so that it will conform moreor less to the contour of that portion of the heel into which it is set.Ordinarily the armoringdevice will be made of steel or iron, or someother metal sufficiently hard to materially resist wear as compared tothe material of the heel itself.

This armoring device is to be built or vulcanized into the body of theheel itself so as to virtually constitute a portion of such heel. Inorder to assist the union or connection of the armoring device to therubber I of the heel, T have so formed said armoring device that thisvulcanizing union or conncction may be most perfectly accomplished. Forthis purpose, I provide a lug or projection 10 on the upper surface ofthe armoring device, the same preferably facing in toward the concaveside of the are thereof. In the construction shown in Fig. 3, this lug-Or projection 10 is a separate block secured or attached to the armoringdevice by a rivet 11; whereas in the construction shown in Fig. 4 thesetwo parts are integral.

In use, the scuffing or wearing force com ing upon the arinoring devicewill ordinarily tend to deflect it toward the back edge of the heel.This would tend to upset or twist the armoring device in the body of therubber, but by providing the lug or projection 10 this twisting orupsetting action is largely resist-ed and overcome.

I claim:

As a newarticle of manufacture, a reinforcement block for resilientheels comprising an arcuate member and a single lug or tongue rigidtherewitn, and located centrally thereof and extending in the directionof the concave face of said arcuate member, said lug or tongue lyingoutside of the space embraced between the planes of the upper and lowersurfaces of the arcuate member and being of less width than the lengthof the arcuate member and serving to provide abrupt shoulders at itssides at the point of junction with the arcuate member, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

- [LR-RY FAEGENSON.

